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Thursday, May 2, 2024
Brahms - Piano Quartet No. 3 In C Minor, Opus 60 'Werther'
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In 1853 when Johannes Brahms was 19, he made a concert tour as accompanist to the violinist Eduard Reményi. On the tour he met Franz Liszt (...
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Schubert - String Quartet No. 14 In D Minor 'Death and The Maiden'
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Franz Schubert (1797 -1828) was an Austrian composer who died when he was 31 years of age. He was a musical prodigy and played the violin,...
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Schubert - Piano Sonata No. 21 In B-flat Major, D. 960
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The last three piano sonatas of Franz Schubert were written during the last months of his life. Schubert had been suffering from the effec...
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Monday, January 29, 2024
Berlioz - Grande Messe Des Morts (Requiem) Opus 5
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The political climate in the second decade of the 19th century in France was precarious at best. Napoleon had been exiled to Elba in 1814 af...
Friday, January 12, 2024
Mozart - Rondo For Piano In A Minor K. 511
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As if Mozart's documented abilities as a musician were not enough, there have been all manner of astounding attributes and feats concoct...
Friday, December 8, 2023
Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances, Opus 45
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Sergei Rachmaninoff completed his last major work, the Symphonic Dances , in 1940. It had a good reception at the time of its premiere in 1...
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Liszt - A Faust Symphony
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When Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886) gave up the life of a traveling piano virtuoso to devote himself to composition in 1847 it was with the enc...
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